AGA double buffering using ChangeScreenBuffer()

[NovaCoder]

Hiya,

I had a quick go at this but didn't get very far, has anyone actually got this working?


Here's my 'attempt'

void video_flipscreentask() {

    struct MsgPort *video_dispport = CreatePort(NULL, 0);
    struct MsgPort *video_safeport = CreatePort(NULL, 0);


    screenBuffer[drawBuffer]->sb_DBufInfo->dbi_DispMessage.mn_ReplyPort = video_dispport;
    screenBuffer[drawBuffer]->sb_DBufInfo->dbi_SafeMessage.mn_ReplyPort = video_safeport;

    // Wait for safe to draw.
    while(!GetMsg(video_dispport)) {
        Wait(1l<<(video_dispport->mp_SigBit));
    }



    c2p1x1_8_c5_bm_stub(320, 10, 0, 10, (UBYTE*)backBuffer->pixels, (UBYTE*)screenBuffer[drawBuffer ]->sb_BitMap);

    // Wait for safe to switch.
    while(!GetMsg(video_safeport)) {
        Wait(1l<<(video_safeport->mp_SigBit));
    }

    // Switch.
    ChangeScreenBuffer(video_screen, screenBuffer[drawBuffer]));

    
    drawBuffer = 1 - drawBuffer;




    // cleanup pending messages
    while(!GetMsg(video_dispport)) {
        Wait(1l<<(video_dispport->mp_SigBit));
    }

    DeletePort (video_dispport);

    // cleanup pending messages
    while(!GetMsg(video_safeport)) {
        Wait(1l<<(video_safeport->mp_SigBit));
    }

    DeletePort (video_safeport);


}

[NovaCoder]

I got the same kind of results for simply doing this:

// Draw to back buffer.
c2p1x1_8_c5_bm_stub(320, 10, 0, 10, (UBYTE*)backBuffer->pixels, (UBYTE*)screenBuffer[drawBuffer ]->sb_BitMap);

// Flip.
while (ChangeScreenBuffer(video_screen, screenBuffer[drawBuffer]) == 0) {
/* do nothing! */ ;
}


drawBuffer = (1 - drawBuffer );

Looking at the API for ChangeScreenBuffer(), it returns 0 if it cannot do the flip so you have to do that wait while loop.